Masaryk Station [electronic resource] : John Russell Series, Book 6
Downing, David2014
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Berlin, early 1948. The city, still occupied by the four Allied powers, still largely in ruins, has become the cockpit of a new Cold War, and as spring unfolds its German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviets enforcing a Western withdrawal. Here, as elsewhere in Europe, the legacies of the War have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties, a paradise for spies. John Russell works for both Stalin's NKVD and the newly-created CIA. He does as little for either as he can safely get away with, and between the tawdry tasks they set him—assessing dubious defectors in Trieste, running a spy ring in a Berlin VD clinic, rescuing ex-Nazis who might prove useful from Czechoslovakia—he seeks a way to cut himself loose. His partner Effi Koenen has an easier time, starring in a popular radio series and looking after their adopted daughter Rosa, until a woman she helped save in the War turns up on her doorstep, and admits to a child she left behind all those years before, a child now trapped behind the new iron curtain.
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Author:
Downing, David, AuthorHealy, Michael, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Series:
John Russell
Biography/History:
David Downing
grew up in suburban London. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and
nonfiction for both adults and children, including several novels featuring
Anglo-American journalist John Russell and the nonfiction work Sealing
Their Fate: The Twenty-Two Days That Decided World War II. He lives with
his wife in Guildford, England.
ISBN:
9781624600302
Language:
English
BRN:
2306258